Room 101

[Revolutions]

Bands that reform and trash their reputation. I adored the Pixies, and thought the first album post-reforming was good, but since then...

Makes it harder to appreciate the old stuff, somehow.

Death to the Pixies, indeed.

 

[jjbomber]

Bands that reform and trash their reputation. I adored the Pixies,

You felt Pixie-lated?

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

You felt Pixie-lated?

Pixi-deflated, more like.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Life's capriciousness. Dear old friend (who despite COPD had kept himself fit and active despite nudging 80) fell down the stairs and broke his neck this morning. Not conscious, and relatives have been told that the worst is a distinct possibility. His wife is due to retire in the next few weeks too.

 

[Gray]

Life's capriciousness. Dear old friend (who despite COPD had kept himself fit and active despite nudging 80) fell down the stairs and broke his neck this morning. Not conscious, and relatives have been told that the worst is a distinct possibility. His wife is due to retire in the next few weeks too.

😞
I know of two older people hospitalised by home falls in the last month - one died last week (though she had cancer, it was the fall that hastened the end).

Life is fragile - and statistics confirm that homes (and especially stairs), perhaps understandably, are where most accidents occur.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Life's capriciousness. Dear old friend (who despite COPD had kept himself fit and active despite nudging 80) fell down the stairs and broke his neck this morning. Not conscious, and relatives have been told that the worst is a distinct possibility. His wife is due to retire in the next few weeks too.

😢😢

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

😢😢

Thanks. It's often said of people that they'd do anything for anyone, but this guy is the only person I know of whom that's actually true. Fingers (and everything else) are crossed - he's having an MRI today.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Ventilator being switched off later today. We'll be going over to say goodbye.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Ventilator being switched off later today. We'll be going over to say goodbye.

😭So sorry.

 

[Al ears]

😭So sorry.

Yes, my condolences.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Thanks both. On the brightest note we can muster, our dear friend Tim will continue helping others after his death - there's a recipient lined up for his kidneys already and at the risk of cliché, it's what he would have wanted.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Have amended my film quote signature and we've toasted him tonight.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

People who come on forums, asking questions like, where can I buy this item? If they can search for a forum, they can search for somewhere to buy, instead of being lazy and expecting someone else to do it for them.

This has annoyed me for many years...

 

[Dave_]

People who come on forums, asking questions like, where can I buy this item? If they can search for a forum, they can search for somewhere to buy, instead of being lazy and expecting someone else to do it for them.

This has annoyed me for many years...

Practically any question asked on a forum could be answered in seconds with a Google search....

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Practically any question asked on a forum could be answered in seconds with a Google search....

Forums are for asking questions, that's why they are here but, people who can't be bothered to do simple things for themselves, like looking for a shop to buy something, are just plain lazy.

 

[jjbomber]

People who come on forums, asking questions like, where can I buy this item? If they can search for a forum, they can search for somewhere to buy, instead of being lazy and expecting someone else to do it for them.

This has annoyed me for many years...

We are missing Gel. He was the King of Bargains.

 

[Gel Man]

We are missing Gel. He was the King of Bargains.

In the end he got told off though for listing so many bargains by the moderators.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

In the end he got told off though for listing so many bargains by the moderators.

That's not what happened.

 

[Gel Man]

That's not what happened.

Rule breach deleted.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

And

Please refer to forum rules. If you refuse to adhere to them, actions will be taken. I quote:

• Do not discuss moderator action, or attempt to re-open removed or locked threads. Removed or locked threads were removed for a reason.
  
  • Email community@futurenet.com if you wish to appeal a suspension, or if you have questions about the forum rules.

Back on topic now, please.

 

[Stuart83]

I'd like to put the BBC's scullduggery plan for charging people for streaming from platforms that have NOTHING at all to do with them in room 101

Keeping within forum rules it's hard to explain the underhanded nature of the BBC bully boy licencing policy and door knocks as it is, never mind this plan to basically now include a TV licence requirement to stream from totally independent platforms such as Netflix etc its criminal.

Imagine not driving and being forced to pay road tax..........

As many more people now including the older generations wake up to the exponentially better value of streaming quality content at will for around the same price as what the dismal BBC has been allowed to slowly become the licencing of households has dropped to an all time low, for underhanded reasons mainly the money generated "let's use the word they" won't let it happen hence plans to charge people to stream things that in no way either by funding, content and network or anything for that matter have anything to do with nor the providing of these independent streaming platforms.

Even the people who thought to stream netflix etc alone would need a TV licence regardless of not watching the beeb have waded through the disinformation and confusion and started not renewing their TV licences adding to the rapid decline that would see an end to the BBC.

It's not like the BBC are doing this for all intensive purposes the legal or honourable way by improving their services into competing the fair way for customers.

I removed the point of access from BBC licensing goons to my property following a visit from a bully boy who angered me that much with disinformation and outright lies even indicating that simply owning a TV means you need a licence, I couldn't let it slip out of principle alone they were no longer welcome.
After all they are dodgy door to door salesman to those who generally/legally don't want the BBC and we all know how most of us would like to treat them.

They instead for yrs have relied on disinformation and bully boy tactics to pass off the idea everyone needs a licence.
I've met a few licensing goons and one was ok admittedly he'd too ditched his license in favour of a better independent streaming platform but the majority atleast where I've lived and live try and con you into thinking everything needs a licence, one even said I needed a licence if my TV had certain bloatware preinstalled irrespective of it was activated it not.

Forcing people to unfairly pay a licence fee will have the BBC be loathed even more.

What's prominent in my mind is that if the BBC provided a decent service and not just a sprucing up everytime they want to excuse their behaviours especially now the plans are afoot to make TV licensing mandatory across the board people wouldn't of began to pull away from them in the first place.
I'm afraid bringing out a few dramas of no interest to me or providing cherry picked vetted journalism on things the many hushing orders they have to abide by isn't of interest to me.

I'm patriotic enough to actually want to have a reason to support the BBC but they haven't given reason to and have now distanced me even further.
(It reminds me of when the BBC wanted to implement a licencing fee to every TV set upon sale)

Sure it will be done with all the clever excuses and b?lush?t baffles brains protocol the beeb has followed for yrs
To me the very notion of changing for other people's property is legalised theft both from the proprietor and the chiefly from the viewer.

 

[JDl]

At the risk of being a killjoy, I'll suggest that we need to avoid politics - even though I suspect many of us might have strong antipathies towards a particular world leader at the moment!

Avoid politics? But what about....you know, what's his name.....

 

[JDl]

The internet will shape the future of mankind - and it’s not good.

The internet has already exerted an extremely negative effect on society in spite its benefits.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Keeping within forum rules it's hard to explain the underhanded nature of the BBC bully boy licencing policy and door knocks as it is, never mind this plan to basically now include a TV licence requirement to stream from totally independent platforms such as Netflix etc its criminal.

That is not true. If all you do is watch content from the stored libraries, of non-BBC streaming services, like Netflix, you still DO NOT require a licence. Only if you are watching or recording, a programme that is being transmitted as you watch, do you require a licence. That has NOT changed.

Another thing, the Licence fee pays for much more than just TV.

From, https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/what-does-your-licence-fee-pay-for-top13

"The income from the TV Licence fee means all licence payers can enjoy an ever wider choice of BBC programmes, and services on TV, radio and online, including:

• Eight national TV channels plus regional TV services
• BBC iPlayer - 1000s of live and on demand programmes (including news, sport, dramas, comedy, documentaries, entertainment, and featured films), box sets and exclusive content
• BBC Sounds - a huge range of musical genres, radio stations and podcasts
• Radio stations - 10 pan-UK, six national and 40 local
• BBC website - including News, Sport, Weather, CBBC, Food, Bitesize, Arts, BBC Three
• BBC World Service - TV, radio and online
• BBC apps - like Bitesize, CBeebies, Food, News, Sport and Weather

The licence fee also ensures that all radio, TV and online services are free from commercial advertising and free at the point of use, on a wide range of platforms and devices."

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The internet has already exerted an extremely negative effect on society in spite its benefits.

I think that overall it's a big plus - I think the (many) problems stem from human nature, rather than the technology itself.